[the OlLine Rebel]

Hi. I’m so sorry you all are going through this! Sounds like your SO is suffering in the hospital; is it worse than the previous pneumonia or not?

How do you know you don’t have long-term? Even kidney damage was mentioned, e.g.

I don’t mean to be rude, but I just don’t know how anyone knows yet about long-term, and I doubt everyone gets thorough scans and tests to see if everything is as well as it was prior to COVID!

I’m just trying to find out if this is a valid concern.

[DoodleBob]

This article - "Recovered coronavirus patients dealing with lingering medical problems, including heart disease" - is pretty balanced, and I've followed the quoted Dr Harlan Krumholz during the pandemic and he's been very solid and rational and sober.

In short, this isn't just the flu for some people and health needs to be monitored thereafter. It's as if someone engineered it to be nasty...

[Hildy]

You’re right.. All I can tell you is I feel fine. I am not going to worry about the future. I am a County elected official, and we are not hearing anything about longer term or permanent damage. My SO is not suffering. He’s actually doing great. It’s his breathing which was not good before so they are being very prudent and watching him. Like I said, this isn’t even close to how sick he was when he had pneumonia. We almost lost him.